Sponsor vs Subscribe - What's the difference?
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A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
#A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
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One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
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To be a sponsor for.
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, title= (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
* Milman
(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
* Sir Thomas More
(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
* Shakespeare
As a noun sponsor
is sponsor.As a verb subscribe is
(ergative) to sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.sponsor
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* patron, underwriterVerb
(en verb)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
Derived terms
* sponsorial * sponsorshipExternal links
* * ----subscribe
English
Verb
(subscrib)- Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
- 1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.
- Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.
- All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
- [They] subscribed their names under them.
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- I will subscribe him a coward.